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1 more thing.. Baroni embaresses the entire sport of MMA with his lame a$$ entry to the ring&#8230 people who tuned in for the 1st time will think we are all a bunch of homo fag fans for watching crap like that!!

DREAM, UFC AND AFFLICTION REAP THE REWARDS OF THIS, BUT NOW HAVE TO PICK UP THE PEICES OF THIS TERRIBLE MESS..

Posted by alex on 2008-06-03 05:02:15

Dan Miragliotta definately proved he has a price.. and for that he should be barred from these events. The kimbo fight was set up.. Johnson was sent in there to lose and when he was winning they dropped the ball.. I will never watch another EliteXc fight and I hope Tito and anyone else considering the move reconsiders cuz they dont have a future putting on matches like that.. Id rather watch water polo then EliteXc..

Posted by alex on 2008-06-03 04:54:00

Hell while I&#8217m at it, Brett Rogers didn&#8217t impress me a bit, either. As said, he didn&#8217t really TKO his opponent, he just knocked him down. Had he not shown defense on the ground, THEN it should have been called. Then he&#8217s got the audacity to say he belonged in the main event, especially after being announced to Busta Rhymes? And then the crap in the press conference? The only reason nobody cares is, well, NOBODY CARES about you, Rogers. Shut your pie hole too.

I also noticed how they were favoring Baroni. He was getting beat pretty badly, but it took them longer to stop him than anyone. Has Smokin&#8217 Joe been on the other end, they undoubtedly would have stopped the fight to protect &#8220Shaw&#8217s favorite&#8221. Fuck you, Shaw! Get the fuck out of MMA.

Posted by Anon on 2008-06-02 05:19:28

Watching Baroni mosey to the ring pissed me off severely. I was actually yelling &#8220Get the fuck in the cage already!&#8221 Thank God Smokin&#8217 Joe finished him quickly.

Carano/Young was an excellent fight. Would have been topped by the Lawler/Smith bout had that not been stopped early - which was beyond bullshit.

Slice was the straw that broke the camel&#8217s back. What a joke. I felt embarrassed watching that shit. I seriously apologized to my Dad for making him watch the event with me, thinking it&#8217d be decent. That felt fake as all hell. Gary Shaw clearly does not give a shit about fighters, unless they&#8217re the ones he has fixed to win. All he cares about is lining his own pockets with gold.

As much as I hate to say this, Dana White has been right all along. Shaw is just a fat idiot who doesn&#8217t care about the sport, and Slice is fake.

Posted by Anon on 2008-06-02 05:15:07

Baroni merely provides entertainment&#8230he would be better off being a chip and dale dancer

Posted by w3stcoast on 2008-06-01 22:23:11

yeah, i agree fightfan, quit now.

how can u be a bad ass and be 10-10, LOL i guess the bad=terrible figher.

Posted by Craig O on 2008-06-01 20:06:24

cbs not abc&#8230and Baroni needs to quit.

Posted by fightfan on 2008-06-01 19:58:12

All bitching aside, I am happy to see smokin Joe back to his winning ways. Oh, And Gina looked really hot.

Posted by Tony Kaz on 2008-06-01 19:52:40

I usually am not one to yell fix or complain about results. But this week in ALL sports has me in an uproar. 1st Lakers vs. Celtics??? Obviously the NBA is trying to make up for the poor ratings of last years finals by providing the two most popular teams for the finals. If you watched the games, it was obvious. 2nd, this event was piss poor after watching an excellent ppv last weekend. The only match that didn&#8217t end questionably was the woman&#8217s which was also the most brutal, and entertaining. The Kimbo fight was an obvious fix, gotta protect that cash cow. The Lawler/Smith fight was awesome, but do you really think Showtime would let the title change hands on ABC? Remember, they&#8217ve been ruining boxing for years, MMa is just new territory. The Brett Rogers ko wasn&#8217t a ko but a knockdown, no doubt Thompson was hurt, but who hasn&#8217t seen peope comeback from much more deadly circumstances. Bad business. Elite XC is a joke. I didn&#8217t believe it after the Shamrock/Le fight but my eyes are open now.

I think gary shaw and the New Jersey athletic commission should be ashamed and embarresed by what was clearly a blackeye to the sport of mma.

Posted by mike on 2008-06-01 17:59:03

What a crock of shit fight production.Ist and last time I watch this Elitexc crap.The fix was in on Gary Shaws cash cow and they could have shot Kimbo in the head with a gun and he would still had been declared the winner.Stopping the Lawler fight ??? WTF ..........If you want Your own WWE why not call Hulk and make him the champ LOL.It would have more credibility than this horse shit.Man Kimbo is bought and paid for.If they ever give him a real test he will be through .....

Posted by Big B on 2008-06-01 17:53:57

ELITE XC IS THE NEXT WWE, I BELIVE THAT&#8217S WHY THE ANNOUCERS SAID, &#8220THESE ARE REAL FIGHTERS&#8221 LIKE 20 TIMES B4 THE FIGHTS, SO ALL YA&#8217LL WWE FANS WOULDN&#8217T GET IT TWISTED.

SHAME, SHAME, I FELT ASHAMED BEING AN MMA FAN AND WATCHING THAT PIECE OF SHIT SHOW.

Posted by Craig O on 2008-06-01 17:32:45

Thompson is a complete stiff and has a glass JAw and Kimbo couldn&#8217t knock him out&#8230

KIMBO IS HORRIBLE, fcking period.

BUTT ELITE XC PROGRAMING IS WORSE, IT&#8217S FCKING TRAILOR TRASH.

Posted by Craig O on 2008-06-01 17:31:05

Yea this stuff was awful i did not see the kimbo fight cause after the lawler fight they replayed everything. Kimbo is a piece of merchandise &#8220shit&#8221 sales thats why he is even fighting cause of you tube crap.

Posted by Ryan on 2008-06-01 16:08:08

Yes, I agree that the stoppage was early and the ground game was not given enough time to evolve into any type of submission work. But let&#8217s face it&#8230What we experienced last night was a introduction to the &#8216rest&#8217 of the nation into MMA. I would have liked to see the banner &#8220Elite XC, MMA for Dummies&#8221.

If Elite XC wants to be taken seriously, they need to stop the gimmicks (Busta Rhymes, Dancing girls, etc.) The fights will bring the croud, ratings&#8230if they are allowed to go the distance.

What I have the hardest time understanding is why is a guy with 3 MMA matches headlining a event? Yeah, it&#8217s Kimbo I know. BUT WTF. If I was Robbie Lawler and was told that my belt title defence was on the line and I would not be the last fight of the night&#8230.Personally, I would ask for my contract to be revoked. That to me was the biggest unjustified MMA event of the evening.

Posted by Tony Kaz on 2008-06-01 15:28:29

In response to #4

He smacked the ref for being a jackass! The whole thing stunk of a fix! The only thing they didn&#8217t count on was how bad it would look.

I even saw Kimbo tapping! and apparently I wasn&#8217t the only one who caught that.

EliteXC is GARBAGE!

On Lawler/Smith, I actually called this! Not the poke, but I said what if someone gets an accidental groin shot, this is a 5 round fight. They&#8217re gonna go over the time limit. They planned on someone getting KO&#8217d in the 1st round.

It sucks how this fight panned out. Lawler had the eyepoke, and Smith who was hurt bad already, knew if he continued he&#8217d more than likely get finished. So he told the docs he couldn&#8217t see, TWICE. Of course the docs weren&#8217t gonna let it continue! He said give me my 5 minutes and I&#8217ll be fine. That on top of the board being ALL OVER these fights, any time something was ABOUT to happen, they called the fights.

This was a WEAK showing for primetime and an embarrassment for MMA. The only reason Shaw paid both fighters for winning, it&#8217s good for business. Plus, what was he gonna do pay them both losing wage salaries?

What was worse, were the uneducated &#8220fans&#8221 who were booing the best match of the night in the 1st round of Lawler and Smith! I couldn&#8217t understand that.

What, because it was an ACTUAL fight, and not some 1 minute KO, it&#8217s not interesting!??

basically the whole night was standup boxing. No ground game was shown, no wrestling, no submissions.

If these people want to see a bar fight, go to one.

I think that&#8217s what disgusted me the most about the whole thing.

Also on a final note, Thompson&#8217s cauliflower ear looked REALLY BAD coming in. How come it wasn&#8217t taped up in case it did pop.

I think that ALSO was an out for Kimbo. In case he was getting beat, hit that BIG &#8220EASY BUTTON&#8221, blood comes out and ref can stop it.

This whole thing smelled of set up.

Kimbo got 6 figures for this fight!??

His purse should go to Thompson.

I&#8217d like to see what Thompson made compared to Kimbo, and how much they paid that ref Miragliotti to throw the fight. He should stick to reffing fights in the Yamma.

Posted by Larry McGlade on 2008-06-01 08:35:37

Dan Miragliotta&#8217s been pretty consistent about not letting fights get stale on the ground in the past. It&#8217s not about stopping ground action, just keeping it going. This is something he mentioned to me in Trenton (BodogFight last year). I&#8217ve seen him ref a few more times since then and I think he&#8217s done a decent job.

I think getting them up to their feet at that point in the fight was the right move.

The stoppage did seem a little early, but probably only because Thompson wasn&#8217t face down by that point. His ear was flapping around, blood pouring from it and he took some monster shots; it looked like the right call after watching it a few more times.

Kimbo was in trouble a few times and made a few rookie mistakes. That&#8217ll have to end fast given his high profile, but he had a lot of heart and really battled through his mistakes.

For all of that, I have to write that the Lawler-Smith fight was the best fight of night. The end was a huge disappointment, and it was great of Smith to say that he&#8217d rather be knocked out than have it end like that, but that would have been a bit of a tainted win by Lawler if it continued. I thought it was big of Shaw to say he was going to award them both the win bonus, and obviously we&#8217ll see that fight again, a possible headliner next time around.

Posted by David Singer on 2008-06-01 06:01:29

This was a joke event. More fluff than fighting really. What a bunch of bullshit. 2 bad stoppages in a row. I hope CBS has learned a lesson from this.

As soon as I saw Busta Rhymes, I knew it was going to be a horrible event. Gary Shaw should be kicked in the nuts.

Posted by Jasonicus on 2008-06-01 05:57:45

point for Anon ! It was shaping up indeed. I guess we will have to wait and see in the next fight between those two.

Posted by Eric on 2008-06-01 05:56:18

Am I the only one who&#8217s more upset about the Lawler/Smith fight? That was turning out to be one of the best fights I&#8217ve seen, and they stopped it for the dumbest reason.

If EliteXC doesn&#8217t change their fucking refs and their &#8220physicians&#8221, I&#8217m not watching that shit again. They ruined a good fucking card.

Posted by Anon on 2008-06-01 05:53:22

Am I mistaken or was that not the end of the round Ryan? Do you think that &#8220the edge&#8221 was given to Kimbo because of all of the hype? I viewed the youtube videos, and he did fight some rather doughy guys. He knocked the piss out of Dreads. In the sanctioned arena, with some work, I think Kimbo will have a good run, But he is rather old in terms of mixed martial arts.

Posted by Eric on 2008-06-01 05:32:15

They stopped the &#8220stalemate&#8221 on the ground as Kimbo is getting pounded in the face claiming there was no action. The ref should be disbarred for being so influenced over Kimbo by whomever it was that influenced him. Kimbo would have lost had they not been stood back up. Yes he stopped the fight correctly because Thompson was out on his feet but it should have never gotten to that point.

Posted by Ryan on 2008-06-01 05:22:37

Well the point is people that on the ground thompson would of won, but on the stand up kimbo had the fight in his hands. All kimbo has to do is fix his ground skills&#8230 that&#8217s all. But anyways feel sorry for thompson cus he was bigger than kimbo and still kimbo knocked him the f*ck out!!! KIMBO ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by RAY on 2008-06-01 05:18:17

Dude !! Did you not see that Thompson was CLEARLY out on his feet? He took a poke at the ref for f***s! He had no clue where he was.

Posted by Noxhedz on 2008-06-01 05:03:05

Some sh*t, how Bret Rogers KO&#8217s Thompson FAST, and he doesn&#8217t get the Kimbo fight.

They say he&#8217s the &#8220real deal&#8221. Real deal my ass. I lost a LOT of respect for Bas Rutten. Also, I think he&#8217s the one who said to pop Thompson in his cauliflower ear.

Posted by Larry McGlade on 2008-06-01 04:56:07

They need to FIRE Dan Miragliota. The president of EliteXC bought him off! First the early stand up, then the early stoppage.

Thompson would&#8217ve won a decison or BEAT Kimbo on the ground. The early stand up led to the early stoppage. That wannabe Goldberg ref should be fired and his ref license taken away forever!